Episode 11: Personal Growth and Professional Development

Lesson 4: Professional Reflection and Learning to Improve Practice

This lesson will guide you in discovering the value of reflecting on your own practices to
improve teaching.

Lesson Objectives:

1. Discover how reflecting on one owns practice can improve teaching; and
2. Determine various ways to engage in reflective practice.

Observation

A. Interview a teacher. Ask the following questions:

1. How do you evaluate your practices in the classroom?
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2. Do you think it is necessary to evaluate one’s own practices? Why? Why not?
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3. If given a choice, what do you think is the best way that you can do to help improve your
own practices?
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PROCESSING

1. How does the teacher reflect on her own practices?

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2. What can you say about the way the teacher reflects on her own practices?
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3. How do you think reflective practice can be further reinforced in schools?
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REFLECTION

Complete the following:

1. I realized that
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2. I believe that
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3. I feel that
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4. When I become a teacher, I will
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